we went to seattle and disneyland which was most important, and we traveled to kansas where my grandmother's family was from, and i went to chicago and went to yellow stone, and we took greyhound busses most of the time, and we rented cars and stayed at local motels or howard johnsons, and if there was a pool at a motel, even if it was tiny, i would be excited, and the ice machine was exciting, and the vending machine, i was really excited about that, but this is at a time when you didn't have 600 stations, 24 # hours worth of cartoons, and so at night, if the tv was on, it was what your parents decided to watch, and my mother, that summer, turnedded on the tv every night during this vacation and watched the watergate hearings. i can't say i understood everything that was being discussed, but i knew the issues were important. i knew they spoke to some basic way about who we were and who we might be as americans. so slowly, during the course of this trip, which lasted about a month, some of this seeped into my head, and the person who fascinated me most was in man of jab these dissent with on